I'm back in canada after seeing the world.SF to Georgia to Seattle to home.There's a recording of a panel I was on at SCAD's comic book schooolalong with an impressive aray of dudes.Mark Schultz, Derek Kirk Kim, Ben Caldwell, Robert Atkins and Sanford Green you can hear it here:seqalab.com/?p=553

Also Samax, who does some rad drawings and puts up the best combinationof hip hop and comics in one spot on this internet (ghettomanga.com) is doing commisions this month so his mortgage doesn't eat him.samax.deviantart.com/

Sweet, something to listen to while I draw comics. Never get enough of that.

Can't say I agree that Shirow's high-water mark was Black Magic, I liked his later Appleseed work a lot more. There's something about his early work that strikes me as derivative, which isn't unusual.

But Cyber 7!? Once again, you pop up with a comic that I thought nobody other than myself ever saw. Somebody needs to get the license for that book back, and reprint it in full trades. Never did get to read the ending, Eclipse dropped it after the second volume, just when it was getting interesting.

I assume it was finished in Japan, but it's not easy to find information on it. Running a Google search is a good way to see how much junk can come back on obscure topics. Yes, Internets, give to me your torrents and crappy spam!

Eclipse lists the creator as Shuho Itahashi, but unfortunately I can't dig up much on him, either. It would probably help if I could read Japanese, since then I could run searches through Japanese sites, but otherwise it would seem I am S.O.L.